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Harvard Med research on mRNA vax spike protein undermines fact-checkers, COVID censorship
justthenews ^ | January 5, 2023 - 11:20pm | Greg Piper

Posted on 01/06/2023 5:26:38 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Harvard Med research on mRNA vax spike protein undermines fact-checkers, COVID censorship

"The spike antigen itself ... may contribute to myocarditis" in some adolescents and young adults, says study in American Heart Association journal.

Fact-checkers and Big Tech lost another round with purported COVID-19 misinformation this week, when an American Heart Association journal published research suggesting the spike protein used in mRNA vaccines can harm some people.

The peer-reviewed study in Circulation reviewed 16 adolescents and young adults hospitalized at Massachusetts General Hospital or Boston Children's with post-vaccination myocarditis from January 2021-February 2022. All had "markedly elevated levels of full-length spike protein" in their blood, "unbounded by antibodies." The Harvard Medical School researchers affiliated with the hospitals did not find free-floating spike in 45 "healthy, asymptomatic, age-matched vaccinated control subjects," despite "essentially indistinguishable" antibody profiling and T-cell responses between the two groups.

The findings call into doubt the default response of tech platforms and media organizations when dissenting scientists question the safety of the spike protein. LinkedIn abruptly shut down mRNA vaccine pioneer-turned-critic Robert Malone's premium account in June 2021 when he mentioned the spike in the context of heart inflammation reports among young men. Malone later said a LinkedIn "senior executive" personally apologized for the wrongful removal.

Reuters and PolitiFact have each fact-checked Malone for claiming the spike is "cytotoxic" and harms children. "The spike proteins are harmless, do not cause illness and do not last long in the body," PolitiFact claimed a year ago.

"Covid vaccines show your body's natural defenses how to recognize and kill the virus, then they disappear," former CDC Director Tom Frieden claimed in October 2021. "They don't stay with you."

Last summer, TWITTER issued a strike against Kevin McKernan, who managed MIT's research and development for the Human Genome Project, for claiming the spike protein is a "super-antigen" whose staphylococcal enterotoxin B domain has "potent toxicity."

More than a year ago, Swedish researchers reported in the peer-reviewed journal Viruses that SARS-CoV-2's spike protein "significantly inhibits DNA damage repair," so it might be "safer and more efficacious" to phase out the full-length spike in COVID vaccine development.

The Circulation study has been shared by COVID vaccine skeptics, including British cardiologist Aseem Malhotra, who told Just the News last fall he first faced social media censorship after turning on mRNA products. Malhotra now calls them "one of the worst pharmaceutical interventions in the history of medicine."

****** Dr Aseem Malhotra @DrAseemMalhotra ·

THIS Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG 1/New Peer-reviewed “Circulating Spike Protein Detected in Post–Covid mRNA Vaccine Myocarditis”

“Free spike antigen detected in blood of adolescents & young adults who developed post-mRNA vac myocarditis, advancing insight into potential underlying cause” https://ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025 11:46 AM · Jan 4, 2023

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"Whether the circulating spike protein in the setting of mRNA vaccination was pathogenic [caused the disease] is unclear," the researchers wrote in the full paper, calling its association with myocarditis "notable" in this cohort of 12-21 year-olds.

"There is growing in vitro evidence that spike itself can stimulate cardiac pericytes dysfunction or inflame the endothelium," they wrote. "Thus, the spike antigen itself, which evades antibody recognition rather than invoking immune hyperactivation, may contribute to myocarditis in these individuals."

Former Brown University epidemiologist Andrew Bostom, who THREATENED TO SUE TWITTER BEFORE ELON MUSK'S PURCHASEdue to two suspensions in a month for sharing COVID vaccine research, highlighted this section.

The authors say the study shouldn't be taken as evidence that COVID vaccination is generally harmful. "These results do not alter the risk-benefit ratio favoring vaccination against COVID-19 to prevent severe clinical outcomes," according to a box on "clinical implications." The paper neglects to mention COVID's estimated infection fatality rate for young people, however.

Stanford Med epidemiologist John Ioannidis, whose early-pandemic study of COVID infection rates put a target on his back, and his Meta-Research Innovation Center team published their latest update on IFRs Sunday in the Elsevier journal Environmental Research.

Based on 31 "systematically identified national seroprevalence studies in the pre-vaccination era," the median IFR for ages 0-19 was 0.0003% and for 20-29, 0.002%. That means 3 and 20 fatalities in a million, respectively.

"The current analysis suggests a much lower pre-vaccination IFR in non-elderly populations than previously suggested," the study says. The team's year-ago update cut IFR in half for young people.

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Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG ·

Stanford Prof Ioannidis et al Covid pre-vaccination Infection Fatality Rate paper is now peer-reviewed & published. Conclusions all same.

▶️https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512201982X

Catastrophic societal harms imposed d/t irrational fear & mass hysteria of a virus with IFR lower than influenza. Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG 1/ New Covid Pre-print: Stanford Prof Ionnnidis et al🇺🇸🇨🇦🇮🇹 31 seroprevalence studies in pre-vac era

Age Infection Survival Rate 0-19 99.9997% 20-29 99.997% 30-39 99.989% 40-49 99.965% 50-59 99.871% 60-69 99.499%

▶️https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1 12:44 PM · Dec 30, 2022

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The Circulation paper, accepted for publication the day before Thanksgiving, came out a day after Harvard Med promoted the FDA's call for Americans regardless of risk level to get so-called bivalent boosters after completing their primary series or monovalent booster. That would mean a minimum three spike exposures for children as young as six months.

The medical school cited modeling by the Commonwealth Fund that claims an extra 75,000 lives could be saved over three months if Omicron-Wuhan strain boosting reached the same rate as flu vaccination for the 2021-2022 season. That model was updated after the FDA's mouse data-based authorization of bivalents but before research questioning their claimed superiority.

Mass General Brigham, which is Harvard Med's teaching hospital, downplayed the importance of the Circulation paper's findings in its press release on the study. It put the first mention of the spike protein below identical consecutive sentences reading: "Risk of severe COVID-19 continues to outweigh rare risk of post-vaccination myocarditis."

The release's first paragraph also emphasizes the purported rarity of the adverse event, citing an uncredited statistic without age breakdowns.

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Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH · Follow CDC and FDA did not take vaccine induced myocarditis seriously in part because safety signal was hid by not focusing on young men

Full video on YouTube

Our New Myocarditis Paper - Shows the Risk Highest in Young Men - Stratifying Factors Vinay Prasad MD MPH

2 days ago 10:22 AM · Jan 4, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYcZq9bIYU

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"If the risk of myocarditis is not stratified by pertinent risk factors, it may be diluted for high-risk and inflated for low-risk groups," according to a new peer-reviewed paper by University of California San Francisco epidemiologist Vinay Prasad in the European Journal of Clinical Investigation, owned by academic publisher Wiley & Sons.

Prasad reviewed how many risk stratifiers — sex, age, dose number and manufacturer — were used in 29 post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis studies. A plurality (45%) had one or fewer, while 28% had all four.

"The highest incidence of myocarditis ranged from 8.1-39 cases per 100,000 persons (or doses) in studies using four stratifiers," the paper says. Six studies found at least 15 cases per 100,000 persons or doses for 12-24 year-old males after the second mRNA dose.

"Dose 2 is worse than dose 1. Moderna is worse than Pfizer," Prasad wrote in an accompanying essay for the Sensible Medicine newsletter Tuesday. "But these differences are lost in analyses that lump together products or combine young men and old women."


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KEYWORDS: covid; covidvaccine; mrna; vaccine; vaxtactchecking
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To: mac_truck

Amazing post. Thousands of healthy young athletes collapsing and dropping dead is totally NORMAL. Associated Press said so!


21 posted on 01/06/2023 8:52:29 AM PST by servantoftheservant
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To: servantoftheservant

Lol...your brain is broken


22 posted on 01/06/2023 10:49:51 AM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: mac_truck

Fascinating. You really buy the ‘vaxx is safe’ bullshit, even when commenting an article literally linking the vaxx to myocarditis.

What a spectacular clod! LOL.


23 posted on 01/06/2023 11:19:43 AM PST by servantoftheservant
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To: mikelets456

Check articles site for links:

1. https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.122.061025

2. Kulvinder Kaur MD @dockaurG ·

Stanford Prof Ioannidis et al Covid pre-vaccination Infection Fatality Rate paper is now peer-reviewed & published. Conclusions all same.

▶️https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512201982X

3. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eci.13947

4. ***https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393512201982X

5. https://medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1 12:44 PM · Dec 30, 2022

6.*****Our New Myocarditis Paper - Shows the Risk Highest in Young Men - Stratifying Factors Vinay Prasad MD MPH

2 days ago 10:22 AM · Jan 4, 2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYcZq9bIYU

Prasad reviewed how many risk stratifiers — sex, age, dose number and manufacturer — were used in 29 post-vaccination myocarditis and pericarditis studies. A plurality (45%) had one or fewer, while 28% had all four.

[”The highest incidence of myocarditis ranged from 8.1-39 cases per 100,000 persons (or doses) in studies using four stratifiers,” the paper says. Six studies found at least 15 cases per 100,000 persons or doses for 12-24 year-old males after the second mRNA dose.

“Dose 2 is worse than dose 1. Moderna is worse than Pfizer,” Prasad wrote in an accompanying essay for the Sensible Medicine newsletter Tuesday. “But these differences are lost in analyses that lump together products or combine young men and old women.”]


24 posted on 01/06/2023 12:04:57 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com (Pray for God's intervention to stop Putin's invasion)
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To: servantoftheservant

Were you dropped on your head as a child?

Learn to read before commenting further, jackass.


25 posted on 01/06/2023 1:02:55 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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26 posted on 01/07/2023 11:20:48 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
***articles site for links***

You seem well studied in the subjects surrounding possible damage from CoViD vaxx mRNA spike proteins. If you haven't seen the thread COVID-19 Vaccine Injury - Treatments to Counter mRNA Spike Protein Damage, it has much good medical info plus discussion. More is added regularly.

Your participation might be quite useful and the info there needs to be spread around as much as possible. 🤔 🙂 IR

27 posted on 01/07/2023 1:16:13 PM PST by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: nuconvert
Considering the ages and that it’s mostly boys, it seems like it may be related to testosterone.

It took out Mrs. Swordmaker at age 62 a little over a year ago… so no, it’s not just boys. An 18 year old female MMA fighter mysteriously died on December 26… devastating her family. Likely culprit? Myocarditis! To be able to fight, she and her teammates had to be fully vaxed and fully boosted. Absurd. Her risk factors were essentially nil!

28 posted on 01/08/2023 12:37:12 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots)
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To: DugwayDuke
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. The researchers cited a number from a blog that lists news stories about recent deaths and medical emergencies among people of all ages, from all over the world — some of which were attributed to other causes, such as cancer. The previous figure, meanwhile, is from a 2006 study that specifically reviewed literature for reports of sudden cardiac deaths among athletes under age 35. Comparing the two sources, with different methodologies, is not scientifically sound, experts told The Associated Press.

AP’s fact checkers are liars. There have been peer-reviewed articles on this phenomenon published not anecdotal news reports or mismatched data as they claim as the source of the study. This is real. Here’s one breaking today!

Las Vegas High School Student (girl 16 — Swordmaker), Collapses and Dies After Playing Flag Football

The AP fact checkers have been debunked several times and caught out in their lies before. They are not fact checkers but propagandists who will lie to support the lying leftists agenda! Anyone can cherry pick data and incidents, but the sheer number of these has reached an epidemic such that almost everyone knows someone who has lost a friend or family member in this way. Quit trying to sweep this under the rug. YOU are part of the problem and a part of the Leftist parade when you march with their band of propagandists, swallowing their bilge, taking their line of lies and repeating them as if they were the truth handed down from on high!



29 posted on 01/08/2023 1:19:22 PM PST by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplophobe bigots)
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To: Swordmaker

I didn’t say it was ALL boys. I know it isn’t. That’s why I said mostly.


30 posted on 01/08/2023 8:46:46 PM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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